Wow Amos, thank you so much. This is exactly the right direction I needed to be pointed in. This forum has so much information and people with invaluable knowledge. It is just a matter of finding it. Update: Created air circulation with fan and making sure not to over or underwater them. That has improved all of them dramatically. Will do more research into soils as the mix I made is most likely not the best suited for them but is well draining. I used Plant-Prod 10-52-10 Starter but I may have been too anxious and should have let them develop a bit more. I haven't had any further yellowing and the rest of the plants are a deep green. Hopefully I'm on the homeward bound. I really wanted to try these peppers! Thanks again!

What if you dont have a PayPal account,(as you need to pay The Hippie Company), and dont want to use them...because they are a pain in the a--? And youhad major difficulties with them in the past,so you closed your account. Do you know of any other company that has these seeds, and will take US dollars or a charge cards?

Plant in image looks pretty good to me. Suggest that IF you have some bone meal (stuff I used was 0-10-0), add perhaps an ounce or so at ~10 day intervals to top of soil in pot and water it a bit so as to have some intermix with soil. Some time ago, I did a test with the bone meal vs none. Plants with bone meal demonstrated improvement in growth by at least a factor of 50% over a 3-5 week period. May be not the P so much as the Ca in the form that it exists in the bone. So impressed with the bone that I plan on adding it to potting mix for hot peps next time I prepare said mix into which I intend to sow hot pep seeds. The bone is only slightly soluble in water at neutral pH... but I want to have some available to seedling from the git-go next go-round. Reggie

You think the possible permanent damage you could do to yourself while reacting these acids and chemicals isn't worth the couple bucks it cost to buy it? What are you going to do with the possible toxic stuff left over after you made your boric acid or whatever? The ingredients are probably more costly to get than just buying the finnished product I'd think. Either in gas,starting material $ or just in time. How are you going to know what impurities etc. you have in your starting ingrediants and what the possible reaction some impurity has on these chemical reactions? Pool acid isn't made to be pure/regent grade for chemical reactions or whatever. You shouldnt be messing with this stuff because it's on the internet and some yahoo says it's cool to do. Just water added to sulfaric acid can boil up and burn you badly. Some of the reactions could make flamable or possibly poisonous gasses if the wrong stuff mixes together. What is your FREE heat source (1600 degreesF) to make expanded Perlite...Probably cost more to make than buy. I don't know about you but my time is worth more than taking hours to save a couple dollars by hauling rocks or whatever and dodging acid/bleach fumes or whatever. There is a reason people sell and buy it rather than make this stuff at home. Houses are always burning down after some guy screws up trying to make illegal drugs... Fuel for their car etc. Nothing wrong with making your own pots and soil mixes. But messing with reactions of acid and who knows what else isn't worth it. If I found out you were playing with that kind of stuff in the apartment or house next door to me I'd stop you real quick. Just thinking about the smell of Fish emultion from the nursey (stinks real bad) I can imagine what it smells like fermenting. LOL I guess you do have access to lots of fish guts etc. though where you live. Making Seaweed extract sounds about as aromatic too. The people in the general vicinity are gonna love ya. Lungs burned by acid fumes,skin burns can't be fun... I can think of a ton of reasons not to mess with half the stuff you are thinking of trying with no knowledge of chemistry at all. I think you could be more self sufficient by spending a few bucks to get started and scrounge what you can from dumpsters or wherever. Growing stuff to sell to buy whatever you have to or isn't practicle (too stinky) or dangerous to make. Containers to grow stuff in can be scrounged-empty food grade plastic containers from the local scarf and barf(food grade buckets,bottles or whatever is the size you need). All sizes from Mayonaise jugs to 5 gal. + sized buckets. Cut them to size... Free is better than firing pots and messing with clay. People use liter soda bottles for mini greenhouses for plants-cut the bottom to size and use the top for the cover.Since it's top is funnel shape you cut it slightly smaller than the bottom so it fits snug. Old vegetable packages can be used for starting seeds. Cardboard Egg containers work for starting seeds. Cut the top off and use plastic wrap for a cover until they are big enough for pots. Cut the sections apart and put the cardboard cell in the pot.cardboard breaks down quickly and lets the roots spread. The clear plastic containers vegetables come in have air holes for drainage and snap close covers-good greenhouses too. Vegetable scraps , coffee grounds etc. for compost gathered from resturaunts and grocery stores. Make a small compost bin out of a plastic tub or just make one out of wood. I'm sure you can google plans for most of the stuff you need-same as you did for your chemical reactions. A lot of places will set the stuff aside (whatever you are collecting)if you ask them to.Especially Mom and Pop type places. I know lots of people who grow stuff and sell it to pay part or all it cost them to get by. You can be somewhat self sufficient and not risk your health at the same time. You could probably raise extra plants etc. to sell at swap meets or wherever.